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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
AN EXPERT STORY.

i've handled losses ali my life, -
said the Dragging passenger from Bur
lington. land | knows all about'em
There can't nobody tell me nothin' about
boss. | knows them from the tips o.
their noses to the hairs in their tails
Why down in our section when they
want an expert on boss, they send a
boy right up to my house. Guess I've
been called in fifty times as an expert
witness in lawsuits bout boss trades.
But I'll tell you what makes me mad.
and that is to meet one o. these book
larned fellers who think they can tell
all about boss from what they read.
Only last week L met one o that kind.
and they way mixed him up talkin'
bout the anatermy and diseases of the
hoss, made him wish he had never set
eyes on me,
| by the way said an old man in the
next seat, who hid a pair of roguish ewes
behind pair of huge spectacles. I'm
a little interested in the horse business,
purely from scientific standpoint i
never handled hOrses-I'm a professor of
anatomy in college down East, but
there's one point I've always wanted
settled. You are just the manI've been
looking for, and if you'll be so kind
Certainly, sir; certainly. | kin tell
you anything about a boss. Will be
glad to settle the point you're mixed
up on, sir.
Thanks. Please tell me how a horse
walks. What is the motion of his fore
legs in relation TO the motion of his
hind legs. That is what has puzzled
me- -
That's easy enorgh." replied the
boss picks up his right fore lee and left
his left hind leg simultaneously and after
they have been set down he picks ul
the left fore leg and the right hind lee
at the same instant.
"Bet you $40 he doesn't
"Wh-what' that?' quired the eN.
pert, as if the breath had been Knocked
Otl VI nm " TINS SuuOtl BLOJUSillO&l.
whats that? Do you mean 10 say
don't know what I'm talking bout
DO YOU question my knowledge?'
Money talks"
The expert was in for it and had tc
face the music. The money was put
up in the hands of the conductor. and at
the next station all hands adjourned e
the platform, where a pair of 'bu.
horses were started on a walk to set
tie the novel wager.
well. [ swow, exclaimed the dis
comfted expert, as he saw the cOndue
tor hand the stakes TO the old man
with the spectacles; who'd a thought
that a walkin' boss picks up one foot
at a time? / never did like those in.
fernal book-larnin' chaps. anyhow
durn the durn luckt'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
Mrs. Peters ON Current Afrairs.

My dear, said Mrs Peters to her
husband the other day, "what does all
this stuff in the papers about home
rule mean?"
lit means, said Peters with the air
of sage, "that the Irish want to gov
ern Ireland themselyesP"
They are tired of the tyranny of the
czar, are they?'
The ear? What are you talking
aboutP'
"Oh. | mean the emperor.
"Worse and more of it. Do YOU
mean TO tell me that you don't know
that Ireland is under the rule of Eng
land?"
"Oh, so it is. Isn't Queen Victoria
good to them? I'm sure she looks real
nice in her pictures She can't be very
horrid"
'She's horrid enough to the Irish.
Now you listen and I'll explain the
home rule business to you. want
my wife to be informed on so important
a subject. You know all about Glad
/ slOie, uOn NOus
"Oh, yes; he's Queen Victoria's son,
or something else. isn't hep
''What are YOU talking about? Have
/ married a raying lunatic?'
There, now; YOU 90 to getting cross
about nothing. | wouldn't talk to my
wife like that for al the Irish on earth.
Gladstone is the king or president OF
car on whatever the ruler of Ireland is,
isn't he? But it doesn't sound like an
Irish name
Hes no more Irish than I'm
Chinese. Now you pay attention and
| I'll tell YOU all about it. For years the
people of Ireland have long been dis
satisfied"
with Gladstone?"
mo, no
with Victoria, then? Wen, /"
Not with her alone They have
been shamefully oppressed, and their
rights and liberties restricted through
coercion and"
Coercion means the same rs pro-
hibition does here, doesn't il.
Have you any sense at al? I'd
IKE 10 see the fn9llsh rulers Try the pro-
hibition game on the Irish in ireland.
They'd ride Queen Victoria on rail
and lynch parliament IN body. This
home rule muddle wouldn't be any
thing Coercion is a species of tyran-
ny that deprives the Irish of almost all
individual liberty. You've heard of
Parnell?'
Hes the man who has Just been
around the world on bicycle, isn't
he2n
"Great Caesar! I'VE a notion TO 90
right down town and apply for a
divorce. Any jury in the land would
give u 20 me in two minutes and a
half! Herei where's my hat and coat?
I'm going of and hang myself for
marrying such a."
james, you're just as mean as you
can be! I'm sure I've understood
every word you've said. and | won't
stand your abuse. =
But Peters had fled.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
GOldeurOd.

Ofthe goldenrods noted four species,
including the whte-which might APP
propriately be called silyer-rod-
the blue-stemmed The latter( solidago
cesia) is.to my eye the prettiest of all
that grow with US, though il is nearly
the least obtrusiye. Ii is rarely if ever
found outside of woods, and ought to
bear some name Sylvan goldenrod,
perhaps) indicative of the fact As y
rule fall flowers have little delicacy and
fragrance. They are children OF the
summer; and, loving the sun, have had
almost an access of good fortune. With
such pampering it is no wonder they
grow rank and coarse. They would
be more than human. 1 was going to
say, if they did not. II is left for stern
winters progeny, the blossoms of
early springtime. who struggled up
ward through the snow, and are blown
upon by chilly winds--it is left for
these gentle creatures, at once so hardy
and SO frail, to illustrate the sweet uses
of adversely.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
IN THE EAST.

United States District Attorney Bur
nett requested Commissioner Hooper to in
crease the bonds OF z. =. Harper, late vice
president Of the Fidelity National bank, to
Ssll0.00Q. and that Of Benjamin +, Hopkins,
late assistant cashier, 70 sl00,0O0 and Il was
done. This action confirms the fact that
the policy Of the government is 20 deal with
the sfrictest severity with all who are culp-
able in the Fidelity bank catastrophe. The
district attorney also filed proceedings
brought Is the comptroller Of the currency
10 forfeit the charter Of the Fidelity Ma
tional bank and wind up tie affairs Of the
corporation
The Burnside equestrian statue was
unveiled at Providence, r. l., July 4. and
veterans Of Pennsylvania Union regiments
and of Virginia confederate soldiery met in
frateFnsi celebration upOE the Gettysburg
battle field. and reviewed the scene of con-
fiict July ?, 3 and 4, twenty-four years ago.
Cyrus W. Field undertook TO mani
pulate corner in Manhattan Elevated
Railroad Stock. but his corner met the
fate Of the wheat corner. the coffee corner
ana all corners of Wall street or any other of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

JAMES READHEAD and Harry Ander,
son went swimming in Lake Contrary
near It. Joseph, Mo-, the other day
and drowned because party of ladies
and gentlemen in a boat near were toe
modest to rescue them without their
clothes on
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

II was an interesting circumstance
that while the mob outside was clamOr-
ing for his blood, the Rev. DIR. Courtney,
chief speaker at the jubilee banquet in
Faneuil hall. was eloqUentiy pleading
the very cause the rioters protested At
tachment 70. The Pilot declares that
IL was 1.-THE address Of gentleman and
conscientious man. With large and
noble patriotism toward England. he
remembered the Affections Of Ireland
and the dreadful corporations Of heE
people
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

was done late in July. About Septem-
Der ! twenty-four cows were turned
into the field when the stubble had
started into growth and they found
good pasture for two months, until a
heavy frost came. Cut early and cured
well, sorghum is an excellent milk
producing food.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
CHEEwlNK.

The cat-bird sets on the wiiler linn,
AS Is oendin' over the run To drink,
ana yapps what reclSen seems ter him,
a wonderful galus -chee-winki
kt han't 10 meanin' es 1 kin make out
Et may be Lating er elsewisa Greek;
But he sets there singini his tune like he
m0ught
Hey dozen planners inside OF his dob.
But the brook likes the tune, an goes lamn
laf
Right under ct. heartier. leastwise. so think;
An Ell keep up a banterin' chat
For ter hearten the singln', cheewink, chez
winki
En- the blue johnny jumpups (they aIlns mind
OF my little gals eyes 50 loving and sweet,
ihey smiles Ike human when they hears on
The eat-bird a-filliu' the air complete.
And the eowslips they grin, n git yellerer yet,
Like es ef they was blushin' a new-fangled
blnsh,
When they sees the ''eheewinll, - in the willers
rain-wet.
4 Er hopping, about in the dead elder bfasn.
En- the sweetWilliam tops, all a bendin' with
! blows.
Nod back ards'n' for'ards keepin OF time
To the chirk little tune as Il mellery COWS,
! Out inter the air like Gshort-metered erhyme
l hoe an listen m listen m hoe:
Ihat bird In the willer G-pippin' away
Make M worries go fast, an my pleasures 90
slow,
M the sun ter shine clear the eloudiest day.
Els mighty small ! suppose fer ter make
man Ter feel happy folks most like may
think,
But fer me ter be cheerful, ct don't allus take
More the eat-bird sing n, cheewink, chez
wink!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

Mas MARX HoPKINs. the widow Of
the late ex-president of Williams College
was a Mis- Hubbell Of WiIliamstown.
The married life of the couple dates
from 1892. the golden wedding having
been celebrated five years ago Four
sons and three daughters are still lis
fur
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

RENBRASpr's famous etching IF
Christ Healing the Sick has been
bought by the British museum for S.,
500. There are but eight impression
Of this etching in existence, and tie
last. which came on the market IN
1867. brought 400.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

SOME one sent poor picture Of Patti
10 the sOngstress, with a request that
she write her autograph below it. She
said. Good gracious. What an
,bominable picture, Ican't sign that. :
She thought moment Then she turn
al il over and wrote ON il: who Is
this9 don't AnOw. Adelina
Patti .
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

THE only meat which Mr.. Edison, the
inventor. viii eat is beefsteak. He likes
AL kinds If vegetables. and for dessert
always takes fruit. strawberries being
favorite- Il only takes him few
minutes TO eat hi dinner. Soups are
omitted from his table. Whenever MIR
Edison uses the telephone he fairly
shocks whoever receives his message by
talking very loudly. Being slightly
deaf. he does not appreciate the high
5trdh Of his own voice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

The Piegan Indians Of Montana hive
made over coo this spring SHINING
the carcassess of cattle which persisted
in the snow The Indians received %
cents for every hide they brought in,
and they exhibited such industry that it
became necessary to watch the herds to
prevent them from skinning every ami
NAL in the Territory, dead or alive
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

Mr., LEWIS MORRIS. the assistant poet
laureate for the jubilee occasion, is the
author Of the Epic Of Hades. He owes
his elevation To L. partiality Of the
Prince Of Wales.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

ALERT MIENER, the millionaire
manufacturer who supplies half OF PARIS
It's breakfast chocolate. Is now AT the
Hoffman house. New York. He weighs
about $50 pounds and has been making
tour Of the world to reduce his flesh.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

IoHN WANAsIAKER. the Philadelphia
sAopkeeper and phiIanthropist, has de-
clined the dinner at the Union League
club which the editors and publishers
OF the daily papers Of Philadelphia pro
posed 10 give him. 'Iwould not feel
il to be right. he saws. al this time TO
accept it. since l am Yet on the scaifold-
ing If m ineompleted building in the
sphere Of my proper life work. 1 do
not consider that have Yet attained TO
that which is in any large degree com
mensurate with the truest purposes and
plans Of my life
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

ROBERT 4. LINCoLNs law practice
brings him an amount of profit which
his father, the martyred president.
never dreamed Of. His firm has an in
come Of 100000 year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

WILLIS H. BoCoCK. who was last
week elected professor Of Greek in
Hampden Sidney college, Va, is said
to lie the youngest college professor in
the United State lie IS p years old.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

A WASHINGTON milliner has success
fully introduced a new style Of summer
hat which She has named Dorothy
Whitney in honor Of the naval secre-
tarv baby girl.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

GENERAL SHERIDANwill spend nearly
ali If july in Chicago. lie is the presi-
dent Of the Jocky club there, and sell
dom fails - attend the races,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

CONGRESSMAN REED, of Maine, left
last week with party Of friends to
spend the month Of July in Alaska.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

THE library Of Henry Ward Beecher.
now IN the keeping of the American
Art aSsOCiat on. contains few novels.
There is not even copy Of Mr..
Beccher'S Norwood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

Ex-UNIFED STATES TREASURER JoR-
Dan has been presented with ahandsome
silver punch bowl by the employees of
the treasury department.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

}. ". LoNGLEY, attorney general Of
Nova Scotia. is an ardent advocate OF
a commercial union Of the dominion
and the United States.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

THE hope is again INDUCED that the
unfor innate eX-Empress Carlotta viii
fully recover her mental powers
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NOTES OF THE TIMES.

BUFFALO BILL, was born i'm Iowa in
February, ls4j.
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THE presidency Of Adelebert college
III Cleveland. has been offered 10 Prof.
Herbert h. Adams, If the Johns Hopkins
university.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

CHARLES 4. DANA sailed fuI Europe
Oh the Cuuard steamship Servia. lie
remain until about September
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

GOV. BARTLETT, Of California, who
has been seriously i'll. Is now on the
road to recovery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

are made pallid and unattractive by func
tional irregularities which DIR. Pierce's Cav
orite Prescription" will infailihlv cure.
Thousands OF testimonials. By druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

GEORGE W. PULLsIAN's father was :
iourneyman cabinet maker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

PULP Hale, the son of the Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale. is studying art II
italy
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07


OconomOwOc; The drouth in this
section still continues. and tf5.e is
hardly a hope of even a fair crop. All
small grain is badly injured, and, to
make matter worse. the chinch-bug in
many eases is working havoc in the
wheat and barley fields. Rye, which
looks the best Of all crops, is being har-
vested, and viii yield a medium CROP.
Dodgeville: The long drouth stin
continues almost unabated. Farmers
sag their oats and wheat are scarcely
worth cutting. The hay crop is al
most an entire failure. Corn. potatoes,
and vegetables are looking well.
siEhorn, The drouth continues.
and crops Of all kinds are suffering
Small grain that promised well week
ago unless rain comes soon win not
yieldfhalf crop. Corn is driving up
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
ROOTS FOR WINTER FEED.

found out long ago the value OF
roots for Winter feeding of cattle.
When l fed dry hay and stalks the cat
tie would tnrn up 1T the end of long
winter duh and constipated. When
they got to the pasture they wonld
scour so that it was a week or so before
they did good work. When | fed roots
right along they kept in better condi-
ton They did not turn up in Spring
gnawing boards and old wood or bones
as | have known plenty Of cattle to do
Men who work in the pine woods often
come out IA the Spring duh and heavy.
Their wor' in the open mir ought to
leavethemin fine cQnditionIhut the steady
diet of fried pork, beans and bread,
without fruit or many vegetables, throws
the system off the track 1t seems to
me that this is the condition that cattle
get into after a long Winter on straw,
stalks and other dry feeds. They may
look fat and hearty, but their food does
not do them the good ii ought to. Roots
and silage keep cattle in fine trim. To
my mind they are to be olassed as foods
about with fruits and canned vegetables
in the Winter diet of man. Correspond
ent Rural New Yorker
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

At Pernambuco fire destroyed sew
eral warehouses and 5000 bales of
cotton
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
PoTAToE sLUGs.

Wherever potatoes are grown largely
farmers have learned to keep sharp
lookout for the FIRST crop of slugs.
These hatch in two TO three weeks after
the potatoes are up. according to the
weather The mature beetles are in the
field by instinct about as soon as the
first green shoots appear and at once
begin laying their eggs. Sometimes
the bright yellow eggs are found on the
under side of thistle leaves when the
potatoes are slow to come up. In
such eases | suppose the eggs have to
be laid somewhere. and the beetle can
90 no further in her search for a pota-
to or tomato plant. Generally when
young potato shoots begin to appear,
egg-laying also begins on them, with
enough bugs two weeks latter to strip
the plant ina single day. The leaves
of the potato at this early stage of
growth are very tender and easily
burned. If too strong doses Of Paris
green are used il will hurt the crop as
much as the potato bugs could do
For this reason, a also from a dislike to
use Paris green except when absolutely
necessary, have always been careful
to pick first beetles as soon as they APP
pear. Sometimes this has been a pref
tn big Job, / have found ten to twenty
beetles on a single hill on early planted
potatoes in small garden patch.
After destroying these | have gone over
the same rows an hour or two later and
found half as many more. But in large
fields they are never 50 numerous early
excepting around the fences and edges
of the field. Finally later in the season
| have sometimes used Paris green,
though with hand picking al first the
poison viii net be needed
KANSAS SORGHUM,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
QUALITY OF CEREALS.
G. d. MoMANus.

In the current number of Agricul-
tural Science is an interesting paper by
Clifford Richardson, giving some gen
ordinations concerning the varying
quality of the grains raised in different
parts of the country. We have no
space for the conclusion drawn, but
some of the facts have great interest.
Analysis shows that the country may
be divided into several sections, each Of
which produces wheat of particular
character
The Atlantic slope produces a wheat
of medium size, and with less than the
average amount of nitrogenous con
stituents. In this part of the country,
latitude seems to exert rs whole a
minor influence. In the central states,
including Tennessee, h .ntucky, Ar
kansas and the adjacent states, the
grain is somewhat larger AZ I contains
more nitrogen. In the Northwest a
grain is harvested richer in nitrogen.
and smaller than in any Other part of
| the country. In Colorado, where irriga-
ton is practiced, on the virgin lrairie
soil large grain is grown which at the
same time is rich in nitrogen, while in
the Northwestern slopes of the Pacific
coast the wheat is large but extremely
starchy, and contains less nitrogen than
that found anywhere else. The speci
mems from Minnesota and Dakota have
/ for five successive seasons sustained the
reputation of the Northwest for grow
ing the richest wheat we have in al
/ buminoids.
The wheat from different parts OF
the country are in many eases as strik-
ingly different IL appearance as in
other qualities. so that it is very easy
among wheats from Colorado, Oregon
and Dakota to say at glance what the
| source of any or all was. Noticing
this fact the question arose how far the
peculiarities are fixed for any locality
from year to year, and how far modi-
iications would be produced by change
from one to the other.
/ There are in the collection Of wheats
four specimens which strikingly illus
trate the point alluded to. They con-
sist of a soft. plump, yellow wheat
from Oregon. small, hard, red vari-
ETY. from Minnesota, which are as
extreme in appearance rs any that
have ever been seen, and the same
wheats grown for three years on the
soil of Colorado from seed from thetwo
sources. The two latter specimens,
while distinguishable. have approached
each other SO fast in character rs to
have had their great difference in ap-
pearance vanish and to possess more
the peculiarities of Colorado grain than
those of the countries from which they
came. The effect of changed condi-
tions has been most marked and con-
yincing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
TRY IT

Here is a bit of wisdom from the
Husbandman; "A good thing for any
farmer to do on a Summer day when
he can spend time is 10 take his wife ia
his best carriage with safe horse in
front, and drive alongneighboring farms
to see how crops look, how they are
cultivated; TO look at the orchards and
gardens; in short, to get new ideas and
the freshening that a day of rest gives.